Stealth Archer

How to Play Late Game

Assassin is what turns the Stealth Archer from “patient” to “predatory.” It doesn’t add new range skills so much as it supercharges what you already do: surgical openings, guaranteed crits out of stealth, and detonation-style finishers. The rotation becomes a tight loop of stealth windows, lethal openers, and clean exits, supported by passives that reward kills with more stealth and kills that hit harder the closer your enemies are to death.

Start fights with the classic Stealth → Full Draw opener on the most dangerous target in line of sight. The stealth bonus and Full Draw’s “full health” multiplier snap together for truly disgusting numbers; most trash dies instantly and elites are left bleeding out. From here, lean back into your Long Shot cadence at 25m+ while you set up the next window. When a priority target won’t drop cleanly, layer Mark of Death first. Every arrow you land charges the mark; detonate it manually at around eight seconds to cash out the full payout, then immediately vanish and set up your next clean shot. For targets that simply need to cease existing, tap Hidden Blades between stealth windows—post-upgrade, its extra procs push it into “point-and-delete” territory, and it slots neatly into your single-target burst without dragging you out of position.

The passives are what make the loop sing. Knife in the Shadows guarantees a crit every time you fire from stealth, so your first Long Shot out of invis is a mini-nuke. Throatcutter acts like a built-in execute, ramping your damage as health bars dip, which means anything that survives your opener becomes easier to finish with each follow-up arrow. And the keystone, I Was Never Here, resets Stealth on kill—this is the motor. Pick off a squishy, get stealth back, take another stealth shot, and keep the conveyor belt moving. In practice, encounters devolve into a rhythm of: stealth, Full Draw opener or Long Shot crit depending on target health, Hidden Blades to erase something stubborn, manual Mark of Death detonate to finish a bruiser, stealth reset from a kill, and repeat from a new angle.

Because your control is ranged, Explosive Shot keeps its niche even late: it breaks shield stances, interrupts charging brutes, and flips melee onto their backs so you can keep operating at max distance. If you’re tempted to fold in Leaping Shot, you absolutely can—it’s one of the strongest rogue buttons in the game—but this script deliberately proves you don’t need it (or Throwing Blades, or Pin Cushion) to make a ranged rogue feel dominant. The whole fantasy here is staying in the tree line and winning with clean shots, smart resets, and discipline.

A few quality-of-life notes for nightmare: play the camera, not the minimap—your line-of-sight lanes matter more than pathing. Fight from elevation whenever possible to keep Long Shot unobstructed and to buy yourself safer stealth re-entries. And if cooldowns feel long, lean into patience: sit in stealth, hard kite, and pick targets one at a time. The build doesn’t need to “pop off” to win; it just needs one good window every few seconds.